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Share your COVID-19 story

We are eager to highlight the vital work that you and many other health and care colleagues are doing during this unprecedented time

Preceptorship for registrants working outside the NHS, including as sole practitioners

We recognise that many HCPC registrants are employed or work outside the NHS structures, where preceptorship is less well known and may be more difficult to access.

Readmission

This section is for applicants who have previously been on the Register and would like to re-join it.

Section 5 – English language proficiency

People on the HCPC’s Register must be able to communicate effectively in English in order to meet our standards of proficiency

Top tips for completing your CPD profile if you’re selected for audit

We've compiled a list of top tips to help make the CPD auditing process as smooth as possible.

Returning to practice

Information about the process you need to complete if you are returning to practice after a break of more than two years

What is your scope of practice

But how do you determine what your scope of practice is? This page, and the resources within it, will help.

Professional liaison groups

A professional liaison group (or ‘PLG’) provides advice to the Council or committees on strategic issues. Either the Council, or a committee can decide to set up a PLG, to look at a specific issue and report back.

Keeping information safe

You need to take all reasonable steps to protect information about service users. By ‘reasonable steps’, we mean that you need to take sensible, practical measures to make sure that you keep the information safe.

New threshold for paramedic registration

In 2018, we raised the level of qualification for paramedics’ registration. Previously paramedics needed to achieve ‘Equivalent to Certificate of Higher Education’ to become registered. Currently they need to achieve ’Bachelor degree with honours’.

Health and social care regulators

We work closely with the other UK health regulators to share best practice in a variety of areas. These include HR, education, equality and diversity, communications and governance.

Sole practitioners' group

Case study: Carl is a podiatrist working in independent practise. He is a sole practitioner and has run his business for 10 years

Registrant snapshot - 4 March 2025

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (4 March 2025).

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